[Tor www-team] Suggestions for Mirrors in Censored Countries

[Griffin Boyce]

William Papper wrote:
> That would be great. I could then add your repo as a submodule, and
> someone would just need to pull both for updates. I assume that it
> would be pretty easy for you to reset the commits, since only new
> versions will be added and there would be nothing in the commit
> history you would need to preserve.

   I'd obliterate old commits with

git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename'

   so the old binaries don't stick around.

> Alternatively, if the commits themselves cannot be removed easily, a
> new repo could be created for each version. Then, the submodules
> reference can just be updated instead of updating the submodule
> itself.

   I like the idea of having it all in one repo (or at most divided by 
language), so that it's easier to maintain/get, and easy for githubbers 
to track changes to.  Though might change the repository name.

> We could also use releases on the tor-download-web repo, and then have
> a script download the files for each release automatically. The script
> can be updated through git to take care of updating the files.

> Which solution seems best?

   Might be good to check in with Runa and Weasel.  Not sure if they're 
on this list.

~Griffin